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From: dsr@luke.mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5?
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Date: 28 Jun 90 20:01:11 GMT
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!!!! flame warning !!!!

I don't know about other people but I'm tired of the adverts for X11/NeWS
from SUN.  This is not a general solution (just one vendor) and doesn't 
answer the needs of many people (do you still need a minimum of 8 Mb to
get any kind of performance?).  

For that matter one can tout Display Postscript as an answer for 
rendering Postscript/scalable outline fonts.  Just as valid an advertisement
and still doesn't answer the problem.

!!!! flame off !!!!

IMHO scalable graphics and text don't belong in X.  There are many rendering
schemes which can run on top of X to provide more then adequate solutions.

To name a few:

GKS (from U Illinois (xgks) or U Lowell (gksul)
PHIGS (as evolving PEX)
Display Postscript (from Adobe)
Interviews (Mark Linton at Stanford)

etc.


Douglas S. Rand 
Internet:   <dsrand@mitre.org>
Snail:	    MITRE, Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 
Disclaimer: MITRE might agree with me - then again...